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[Enter Lady Macbeth.]
How now! What news?
Lady Macbeth. He has almost supped. Why have you left the
chamber?
Macbeth. Hath he asked for me?
Lady Macbeth. Know you not he has?
Macbeth. We will proceed no further in this business:
He hath honored me of late, and I have bought^12
Golden opinions from all sorts of people,
Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,
Not cast aside so soon.
Lady Macbeth. Was the hope drunk
Wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since?
And wakes it now, to look so green and pale
At what it did so freely? From this time
Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard
To be the same in thine own act and valor
As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that
Which thou esteem’st the ornament of life,^13
And live a coward in thine own esteem,
Letting “I dare not” wait upon^14 “l would.”
Like the poor cat i’ th’ adage?^15
Macbeth. Prithee, peace!
I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.
Lady Macbeth. What beast was ’t then
That made you break^16 this enterprise to me?
When you durst do it, then you were a man:
And to be more than what you were, you would
Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place
Did then adhere,^17 and yet you would make both.
They have made themselves, and that their^18 fitness now
Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know
How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this.
Macbeth. If we should fail?
Lady Macbeth. We fail?
But^19 screw your courage to the sticking-place^20
And we’ll not fail. When Duncan is asleep—
Whereto the rather shall his day’s hard journey
Soundly invite him—his two chamberlains30- bought acquired.
3540- ornament of life the crown.
- wait upon follow. 45
- poor... adage from an old
proverb about a cat who
wants to eat fish but is afraid
of getting its paws wet. - break v. reveal.
50 - Did then adhere was then
suitable (for the assassination). - that their their very. 55
60- But only.
- sticking-place the notch that
holds the bowstring of a taut
crossbow.
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PERSONALIZE FOR LEARNING
English Language Support
Analyze Language Review with students
specific lines and phrases that describe events or
characters. In Scene vii, lines 48−50 Lady Macbeth
questions Macbeth’s manhood when she says,
“What beast was ‘t then that made you breakthis enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then
you were a man.” Ask students to find phrases or
specific words that Lady Macbeth says to describe
herself (lines 55−60) and explain the effect these
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